Definition of "Delft"

Delft

/ˈdɛlft/

proper noun
1. A city in South Holland, Netherlands known for its production of blue and white pottery.
2. A municipality of South Holland, Netherlands.
noun
uncountable
1. A piece of blue and white earthenware produced in Delft, Netherlands.
  Quotations
  Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft, and here and there a bas-relief.
  1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 39”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
  Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus